{"id":75924,"date":"2018-02-12T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/for-the-first-time-physicists-accelerated-light-beams-in-curved-space-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2018-02-12T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:10:14","slug":"for-the-first-time-physicists-accelerated-light-beams-in-curved-space-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/for-the-first-time-physicists-accelerated-light-beams-in-curved-space-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"For the First Time, Physicists Accelerated Light Beams in Curved Space in the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-physicists-accelerated-light-beams-in-curved-space-in-the-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have demonstrated accelerating light beams on flat surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Where acceleration has caused the beams to follow curved trajectories.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new experiment has pushed the boundaries of what\u2019s possible to demonstrate in a lab. For the first time in an expeirment, physicists have demonstrated an accelerating light beam in curved space. Instead of traveling along a geodesic trajectory (the shortest path on a curved surface) it bends away from this trajectory due to the acceleration.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universal-sci.com\/headlines\/2018\/1\/16\/for-the-first-time-physicists-accelerated-light-beams-in-curved-space-in-the-lab\">https:\/\/www.universal-sci.com\/headlines\/2018\/1\/16\/for-the-fi...in-the-lab<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have demonstrated accelerating light beams on flat surfaces. Where acceleration has caused the beams to follow curved trajectories. However, a new experiment has pushed the boundaries of what\u2019s possible to demonstrate in a lab. For the first time in an expeirment, physicists have demonstrated an accelerating light beam in curved space. Instead of traveling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}